The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina vi
... taken place on the face of the globe , from the earliest times to the present , are the result of agencies still at work . But whilst it is his high office to record the distribution of life in past ages , and the evi- dence of physical ...
... taken place on the face of the globe , from the earliest times to the present , are the result of agencies still at work . But whilst it is his high office to record the distribution of life in past ages , and the evi- dence of physical ...
Pagina xii
... taken out under the new system , in accordance with the above provisions , for three and one - half , seven , or fourteen years , as the applicant desires ; and the following is the tariff of fees established by Congress for the same ...
... taken out under the new system , in accordance with the above provisions , for three and one - half , seven , or fourteen years , as the applicant desires ; and the following is the tariff of fees established by Congress for the same ...
Pagina xiv
... taken by the French government ( see Zoology , this volume ) for the protection of useful birds , with a view of checking the increase of insects injurious to vegetation . M. St. Hilaire , the late eminent nat- uralist , in presenting ...
... taken by the French government ( see Zoology , this volume ) for the protection of useful birds , with a view of checking the increase of insects injurious to vegetation . M. St. Hilaire , the late eminent nat- uralist , in presenting ...
Pagina 22
... taken from the spade to be converted into a naval architect can , after six hours ' instruction , turn out five hundred ribs as the result of a day's work . The machine which shapes and planes beams , with a convex surface on one side ...
... taken from the spade to be converted into a naval architect can , after six hours ' instruction , turn out five hundred ribs as the result of a day's work . The machine which shapes and planes beams , with a convex surface on one side ...
Pagina 23
... taken place by the application of science to that particular element . I recollect well , in the early part of my own history , that the steam engine never worked above seven to eight pounds upon the square inch ; it then reached twenty ...
... taken place by the application of science to that particular element . I recollect well , in the early part of my own history , that the steam engine never worked above seven to eight pounds upon the square inch ; it then reached twenty ...
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Pagina ix - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 150 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space, of action involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of...
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.